Book: Lord of the FliesAuthor: William GoldingRating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Completed this for the 52 Book Club Challenge Prompt #16 (Deux Ex Machina). A group of boys is stranded on an empty island after a plane crash. At first, it is all fun and games, and then it is briefly orderly. But before long, all descends into chaosContinue reading “2026 Book #22: Lord of the Flies”
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2026 Book #21: The Fifth Season
Book: The Fifth SeasonAuthor: N.K. JemisinRating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟1/2 Completed this for the 52 Book Club Reading Challenge #20 (Title in a serif font). This is the way the world ends. For the last time. Essun comes home to find out that her husband has murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter.
2026 Book #20: Such Sharp Teeth
Book: Such Sharp TeethAuthor: Rachel HarrisonRating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Completed this for the Popsugar Reading Challenge Prompt #20 (A book with a character who does Pilates or Lagree) and the 52 Book Club Challenge Prompt #35 (A character with a secret identity). Rory Morris has moved back to her hometown to help her pregnant twin sister, Scarlett. It’sContinue reading “2026 Book #20: Such Sharp Teeth”
2026 Book #19: The Pearl Sister
Book: The Pearl Sister SisterAuthor: Lucinda RileyRating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 CeCe, like all of her sisters, struggles after her adoptive father – Pa Salt – dies. The clues he leaves her take her across the globe to Australia, and to a bloodline that starts with Kitty McBride, the daughter of a Scottish clergyman.
2026 Book #17: Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend
Book: Zero Stars, Do Not RecommendAuthor: M.J. WassmerRating: Completed this for the Popsugar Reading Challenge Prompt #4 (A book that starts with the letter Z) and the 52 Book Club Reading Challenge Prompt #8 (A three-syllable word in the title). Dan Foster – an underachiever with chronically low self-esteem, is finally taking a vacation withContinue reading “2026 Book #17: Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend”
2026 Book #16: Hotel du Lac
Book: Hotel du LacAuthor: Anita BrooknerRating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 Stars Read for a book club in January. Edith Hope, a writer of romantic stories, and stubbornly single, has been exiled to the Hotel du Lac for embarrassing herself in front of her friends. We don’t yet know what she has done, but we do know her thoughtsContinue reading “2026 Book #16: Hotel du Lac”
2026 Book #13: The Seven Sisters
Book: The Seven SistersAuthor: Lucinda RileyRating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Completed this for the Popsugar Reading Challenge Prompt #3 (A book you meant to read in 2025) and the 52 Book Club Reading Challenge Prompt #28 (from a series at least eight books long). Maia D’Apliese has just lost her adoptive father, Pa Salt. She and her five sistersContinue reading “2026 Book #13: The Seven Sisters”
2026 Book #12: 84, Charing Cross Road
Book: 84, Charing Cross RoadAuthor: Helene HanffRating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Completed this for the Popsugar Reading Challenge Prompt #47 (A book told entirely through letters) and the 52 Book Club Reading Challenge Prompt #49 (from the 800s of the Dewey Decimal System). An epistolary memoir consisting of letters exchanged between Helene Hanff and Frank Doel of Marks &Continue reading “2026 Book #12: 84, Charing Cross Road”
2026 Book #11: Project Hail Mary
Book: Project Hail MaryAuthor: Andy WeirRating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Completed this for the Popsugar Reading Challenge Prompt #9 (a book with a type-c character) and the 52 Book Club Reading Challenge Prompt #44 (literary device: personification). Imagine waking up alone in a strange room, with no memory of who you are or where you are. Piece byContinue reading “2026 Book #11: Project Hail Mary”
2026 Book #10: Before I Forget
Book: Before I ForgetAuthor: Tory Henwood HoenRating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 Completed this for the 52 Book Club Reading Challenge Prompt #2 (a kangaroo word on the cover). Cricket Campbell is in a rut of sorts. She has been floating aimlessly from one thing to another, most recently an assistant at a gimmicky wellness company. Things changeContinue reading “2026 Book #10: Before I Forget”
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